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Application filed Mar. 21, I898.) (No Model.)

IINTTnn STATES PATENT @FFIGE EDIVARD A. \VEISHEIT, OF NEIV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE IVINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

EXTRACTO R-DETENT FOR FIREARM S SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,943, dated January 17', 1899.

Application filed March 21,1898- Serial No. 674,567. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: tor, which the detent then releases and per- Be it known that I, EDWARD A. \VEISHEIT, mits to be carried forward by the breechof New Haven, in the county of New Haven closure.

and State of Connecticut, have invented a My invention further consists in certain de= new Improvement in Extractor-Detents for tails of construction, as will be hereinafter Firearms; and I do hereby declare the followdescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

ing, when taken in connection with the ac- In carrying out my invention as herein companying drawings and the letters of refshown I employ a small plunger A, located erence marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and in the upper end of a vertically-arranged :o exact description of the same, and which said cylindrical chamber B, formed in the rear drawings constitute part of this specification, portion of the left-hand wall C of the gunand represent, in frame C. The plunger itself projects up- Figure 1, a broken View, partly in plan and ward through a small hole a, leading out of partly in section, of a gun provided with one the upper end of the chamber B into the path 15 form of my improved extractor-detent, the of the extractor D, the lower edge of the rear extractor and breech-block of the gun being end of which is formed with a transverselyshown at the limit of their rearward posiarranged notch d for the reception of the tions; Fig. 2, a corresponding view showing rounded end of the plunger, the rear portion the detention of the extractor by the detent of the notch being shaped to form a relatively 20 while the breech-closure is moving forward sharp shoulder, while the forward portion and coming up with the forward end of the of the notch is beveled and merges gradually extractor; Fig. 3, a broken view, in vertical into the lower edge of the extractor. A spisection, on the line a b of Fig. 2 and showing ral spring E, located in the chamber B, exthe extractor-detent as engaged with the exerts. a constant effort to lift the plunger, this 25 tractor; Fig. 4, a view in vertical transverse spring being retained in place by means of a section on the line 0 d of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a descrew F, which plugs up the lower end of the tached plan view of the extractor; Fig. 6, a said chamber. I do not, however, limit mydetached view thereof in outside elevation; self to any particular form or arrangement Fig. 7, a detached view of one of the modifor the spring which controls the plunger.

o fied forms which the extractordetent may The extractor D is provided with a spring assume; Fig. 8, an end View thereof. D and corresponds in general construction,

This invention relates to an improvement arrangement, and mode of operation to the in extractors for firearms and is particularly extractor shown in the Lee patent aforesaid. designed for usein conjunction with the maga- The breech-block G also corresponds in gen- 3 5 zine bolt-gun shown and described in Patent eral construction, arrangement, and opera- No. 547,583, granted October 8, 1895, to James tion to the breech-block of the said patent. Paris Lee, the object of my present invention I speak of this part as a breech-block bebeing to reduce to the minimum the liability cause it is moved not only back and forth in of breaking or deranging any part of the exa straight line, but also up and down, in-

40 tractor. stead of simply back and forth, as bolts pure With these ends in view my invention conand simple are moved. However, my imsists in the combination, with a breech-cloprovement is applicable to guns having sure, of an extractor movable independently breech-blocks or breech-bolts or other kinthereof and a spring-actuated extractor-dedred forms of breech-closures.

5 tent arranged to engage with the extractor Inasmuch as the operation of the breechand hold the same in its extreme retracted block and extractor are substantially the position, with its forward end extending besame as the operation of the corresponding yond the forward end of the breech-closure, parts in the gun of the Lee patent before reuntil the same has in its forward movement ferred to, it seems unnecessary to further 50 come up with the forward end of the extracdescribe the detailed construction and opcr- I00 ation of these parts or to do more than specify the operation of the spring-actuated extractor-detent, which constitutes the gist of my present invention. In the description of the operation of the said detent I may say that when the extractor D reaches the limit of its rearward movement, as shown in Fig. 1, the spring-actuated plunger A snaps into its notch d, as shown by broken lines in Fig. 1. After this the breech-block moves slightly rearward and then reaches the limit of its open position, as also shown in Fig. 1. Now when the breech-block begins its forward movement it does not, notwithstanding the friction between it and the extractor, start the same forward (except to engage the rear wall of its notch d with the plunger) until its forward end has come up with the forward end of the extractor, as shown in Fig. 2, at which time the block is positively engaged with the extractor. The forward push on the block then overcomes the spring of the plunger which retires to permit the block and extractor to move forward together in the positions in which they are shown in Fig. 2.

In the Lee patent referred to the extractorspring D is employed to act as an extractordetent, but under some disadvantages, which are entirely overcome by the employment of an independent spring-actuated detent, as herein shown and described.

It is apparent that in carrying out my invention some modifications in the extractordetent may be resorted to. Thus I may find it convenient to employ an extractor-detent consisting of a flat spring H, adapted to be located in the path of the extractor and provided with a small projection II to enter a notch in the extractor. Such a modified detent is shown in Figs. 7 and 8. I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction herein shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes in the construction as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a firearm, the combination with a breech-closure, of an extractor movable independently thereof, and a spring-actuated extractor-detent organized independently of the extractor and arranged to engage with the same and temporarily hold it in its retracted position.

2. In a firearm, the combination with the breech-closure thereof, of an extractor movable independently thereof, and a springactuated extractor detent consisting of a plunger arranged to engage with the extractor when the same is in its retracted position and detain the same and hold it against forward movement while the breech-closure is moving from its open position and coming up with the forward end of the extractor, which it then picks up and carries forward.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD A. \VEISIIEIT.

Witnesses:

DANIEL H. VEADER, THos. O. JoHNsoN. 

